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I'LL RAISE YOU ONE...

7 DAY PUBLIC STRIP POKER GAME
USING 5 DIFFERENT MODELS OF ECONOMICS

1) Free Market Capitalism
2) Social Democracy
3) Socialism
4) Anarchy
5) Wild-West Land Grab Capitalism

NOVEMBER 12 - 19TH, 2011
10:30AM-6PM DAILY
NEW YORK CITY
79 WALKER STREET
STORE FRONT WINDOWS BABY!

AN ART IN GENERAL NEW COMMISSION FOR PERFORMA 11

ART IN GENERAL
and
PERFORMA

CURATED BY THE TALENTED AND BRILLIANT COURTENAY FINN

I'll Raise You One...

Using the conflicting languages of teenage love and small stakes capitalism, “I’ll Raise You One…” is a strip poker game performed in the public realm. Throwell’s performance brings audiences to the threshold of titillation again and again while discussing a much deeper issue underneath. At the end of each round, when the participants typically exit and private affairs begin, players begin again using a different economic model. “I’ll Raise You One…” establishes a world where economics actually have concrete meaning to participants. While big numbers get abstract and inertia keeps the status quo in place most of time, this project asks performers to put something real at risk, the fear of being nude in public, so that these central economic issues take on an urgency that is truly what the issue deserves.